Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find 'the cooling... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 53by Alexander Pope - 1869 - 485 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pages
...but the mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' oft' the ear the open vowels tire, 345 While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten...creep in one dull line ; "While they ring round the fame unvary'd chimes, \Vith fare returns of itill expected rhymes ; "Where'er you find " the cooling... | |
| Joseph Robertson - 1799 - 156 pages
...the in'fipid fmoothnefs, which fome readers admire, he faysT Thefe equal fyllables^lone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives...join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. The hiatus, or gaping of the vowels, in the Tecond line, the expletive do in the third, and the ten... | |
| George Campbell - 1801 - 404 pages
...lines of the following quotation from Pope : These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft thf far thf open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid...join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line *. But this manner, which, it must be owned, hath a very good effect in enlivening the expression,... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...church repair y Not for the doctrine , but the music there. ) These equal syllables alone require , Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; 'While expletives...creep in one dull line: "While they ring round the sama unvary'd chimes j With sure returns of still expected rhimes f "Where'er you find « the cooling... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...are so much in love with, he lias the following verses : These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives...join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. in the fourth, gives a beauty to this passage, that would have been very much admired in an ancient... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, 345 While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten...in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chime*, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western... | |
| William Enfield - 1805 - 456 pages
...minds; as fome to church repair, Not for the doftrine, but the mufic there. Thefe equal fyllables alont require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ;...creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the fame unvaried tliiir.es, With fure returns of ftill expefted rhimes; Where'er you frnd " the cooling... | |
| 1806 - 408 pages
...repair, " % Not for the doctrine, but the music there, J These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives...in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still-expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 pages
...the mufic there. J Thefe equal fyllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; 345 While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While NOTES. In truth, Shakefpear's language is one of his principal beauties ; and he has no lefs advantage... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pages
...equal syllahles alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire, 145 While expletives their feehle aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull...expected rhymes; Where'er you find " the cooling western hreeze," 150 In the next line, it " whispers tbrough the trees:" If cbrystal streams " with pleasing... | |
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